The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-10-14
TALMAGE'S SERMON:
An Interesting Discourse on the
Nobility of True Abnegation.

Christ's Amazing Sacrifice for the Sake
of Fallen Humanity-The Poverty of
Earthly Riches Compared with
the Heavenly Reward.
/ Rev. t. Dewitt Talmage took for the
subject of a recent discourse at the
\ Brooklyn Tabernacle ''The Nobility OF
True Abnegation," his text being:
I Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,
I that, though he was rich yet for your sakes he
/ became poor.-u Corinth ans, viii, 8.
/ DR.. Talmage said: That all the worlds
/ which on a cold winters night make the
! heavens one great glitter are inhabitant-
/ less IS an absurdity. Philosophers tell US
/ that many of these worlds are too hot or
/ too cold, or too rarified of atmosphere for
/ residence. But if not fit for human abode,
/ they may be fit for beings different from
/ and superior to ourselves. We are told
/ that the world of Jupiter is changing until
! it is almost fit for creatures like the
/ human race, and that Mars would do for
| the human family, with a little change in
| the structure of the respiratory organs.
! But that there is a vast world swung
| somewhere, vast beyond imagination,
and that it is the headquarters of the
universe, and the metropolis of immen-
! sity, and has a population in numbers
! vast beyond all statistics, and appoint
ments of splendor. beyond the capacity
! of canvas, or poem, or angel to describe, is
as certain as the Bible is authentic. Per-
haps some Of the astronomers with their
! big telescopes have already caught q
! glimpse of it, not knowing what it is. We
| spell it with six letters, and pronounce il
! Heaven.
That is where Prince Jesus lived nine
| teen centuries a go. He was the Kings SON
/ 1t was the old homestead of eternity, and
/ all its castles were as old as God. Not 6
| frost had ever chilled the air. Not a teai
! had ever rolled down the cheek of one oi
| its inhabitants. There had never been In
| it a headache, or q sideache, or a heart
ache. There had never been a funeral il
! the memory of the Oldest inhabitant
! There had never in all the land been woven
| black vail, for there had never be any
thing to mourn over. The passage OF
millions of years had not wrinkled ol
| crippled or bedimmed any of its citizens
All the people there were in a state oi
| eternal adolescence. What floral and
| pomotic richnessi Gardens of perpetual
| bloom and orchards in unending fruitage
| Had some spirit from another
| world entered and asked: "What il
! SIN? what is bereavement? what is
sorrow? what is death?" the brightest o1
| the intelligences would have failed to give
| definition, though to study the question
| there were silence in Heaven for half az
| hour. The Prince of whom l spoke haC
| honors, emolUm ents, acclamations, sucl
| as no othez prince, celestial or terrestrial
| ever enjoyed. As He passed the street
| the inhabitants took off from their browi
| garIands of white lilies and threw them il
| the way. He never entered any of tn,
temples without all the worshipers rising
| up and bowling in obedience. In all tn,
! professions of the high days He was tn
! one who evoked the loudest welcome
| Sometimes on foot, walking in loving tall
with the humblest of the land, but at 9th
er times He took a chariot, and among tn
10000 that David spoke of His was tn
swiftest and most flaming; or, as wher
! John described Him, he took white pal
| frey, with what prance of foot, and arcl
of neck, and roll of name, and gleam o
eye, is only dimly suggested in the
| Apocalypse. He was not like 9th
er princes, waiting for the Father
| to die and then take the throne
| When, a few years ago, artis
| in Germany made picture for the Royal
| Gallery, presenting Emperor William or
| the throne and the Crown Prince as hav
| ing one foot on the step of the throne,
| Emperor William ordered the picture
| changed and said: ''Let the Prince keep
| his foot off the throne till leave it,"
| Already enthroned was the Heavenly
| Prince side by side with the Father
| What a circle of dominioni What myr
midons of admirers! What unen ding
| round of glories All the towers chimed
| the Princes praises. OF all the in
| habitants, from the center of the city on
over the hills and clear down to the
beach against the ocean Of immensity
rolls its pillows. the Prince was the
/ lad n m Z
text says that
He was rich.
Set all the diamonds of the earth in one
sceptre, build all the palaces of the eartt
in one alhambra, gather all the pearls OF
the sea in one diadem, put all the values
| of the earth in one coin, the aggre
! gate would not express his affiuence.
! Yes, Paul was right. Solomon had
| in gold eG30, 100000 and in silver E1,029,
| 000,377. But a greater than Solomon is
/ here. Not the millionaire, but The quad
Millionaire of Heaven. To desSfibe Hi,
| celestial surroundings the Bible uses al
| cOIors, gathering them in rainbow over
| the throne and setting them agate il
/ the temple window, and hosting twelve
! of them into a wall from striped jasper al
| the base to transparent amethyst in the
/ capstone, while between are green oi
| emerald, and snow of pearl, and blue Ot
sapphire, and yellow of topaz, and gray
of chrysoprasus, and fame of jacinth. All
the loneliness of landscape in foliage, and
river, and rill, and all enchantment
aquamarine, the sea of glass mingled witt
| fire as the sun sinks in the Mediterranean.
| All the thrill of music, instrumental and
/ vocal, harps, trumpet, doxOlogies. There
stood the Prince, surrounded by those
who had under their wings the velocity
/ Of millions of miles in a second, rich in
/ love, rich in alteration, rich in power, rich
! in worship, rich in holiness, rich as God.
But one day there was big disaster in
! a department of Gods universe. A race
/ faIIen world in ruins Our planet the
scene of catastrophe! A globe swinging
( out into darkness, with noun ntains, and
seas, and islands, an awful centrifugal OF
/ sin seeming to overpower the beautiful
/ centripetal of righteousness, and from il
/ a groan reached Heaven. Such a sound
/ had never been heard there. Plenty ot
1 sweet sounds, but never an outcry OF dis
tress, or an echo of agony. At that one
groan the Prince rose from all the blissfu
/ circumstances, and started for the outer
gate, and descended into the night Of this
world. Out of what a bright harbor into
what rough sea!
"Stay with u.s." cried angel after angel,
and potentate after potentate.
NO." said the Prince; II can not stay
/ must be of for that wreck of world.
must stop that grOan. I must hush that
distress. I must fathom that way. I must
I redeem those nations. Farewell
thrones and temples, compan- =
+ ions cherubic, seraphic, archangelici
/ Excuse this absence, for / will come
+ back again, carrying on my shoulder a
+ ran somed wOrl d TIL this is done 1
+ choose earthly scoR to heavenly acclama-
j ton, and a cattle-pen to a kings palace
I frigid zone Of earth to atmosphere Of
/ celestial radiance. have no time to lose,
for hark ye to the groan that grows
mightier while I wait Farewell Fare
we'll